Learnin' Online for All to see
At my church we use a Behringer X32 mixer to run Sunday services and we added an X-Live card, instead of the included USB Audio interface card, so we can record our services, multi-tracked, direct to an SD card. This has saved a lot of recording overhead, since we don't need a PC, display, etc., but
I have a Thecus N5200 that was modified to have a VGA port. Though the machine will run a variety of current Linux distributions, I wanted it to run Centos 6. Unfortunately, the N5200 doesn't support...
Back in 2007, I bought a Thecus N5200 to use as bulk storage on my network. I've spent many years using and fighting with the unit but it wasn't until my storage needs out grew the 5 SATA disks it cou...
I've had my Norco DS-1220 for six or seven months now and have some time to adjust to it and really feel out it's performance. When I first setup the system (transitioning from the Thecus), I had a 2T...
The DS-1220 is great. It was dead easy to setup and has caused me to trouble at all. I installed Fedora 8 in the days leading up to the delivery the the DS-1220 based solely on the fact that I saw som...
Well, I have placed an order for the Norco DS-1220. I ordered it from Newegg.com as an open box item. It's a bit of a gamble, for couple of reason. The first is because open box from Newegg means some...
You would think I'd have learned my lesson already. I've been using my Thecus N5200 for a while now and, like clockwork, every 6 months it just dies. I've blogged about it before here, a lot, here are...
Wow, this is getting old. 36 days in and I've had another drive fail.. only not really. Sure the N5200 thinks it's failed but if I pull the disk out and pop in back in, the array rebuilds and all is w...
We are back online. Seems we had a power issue and the servers didn't come back online when the power was restored. Biggest surprise is that the Thecus N5200 came back online just fine... Didn't see t...
Right, so 56 days after the massive failure I have another degraded RAID on my hands. This time I didn't get any emails to tell me about it. Not sure why, I'll assume the email part is my fault to giv...
Well, I have to admit: I am one lucky guy. I have been running a truly degraded RAID array since day one of my experience with the N5200. To get up to speed you may want to read my other post about th...
Well, It's been a while hasn't it? Let me wipe the cob webs of the site (and the servers, but thats another post) and mention a couple of things I have in the works. First off, my Thecus N5200 has bee...
Well, I have my first real drive failure on my hands. The array has been running for a few months now (though not without issue), and when I logged into it the other day I noticed I have a drive on th...
I've had this device for about 6 weeks now and at this point I think I'm ready to post a fair review. The Thecus N5200 is essentially a NAS RAID box. It's built around a Intel Celeron 600Mhz chip and...
In a not so distant past I had 1.5 Terabytes of storage on one of my servers. That array met with it's sad end one day and all my data was lost. I had bought a raid card and 6 250GB Western Digital dr...